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Outsourcing is most efficient, cost effective option for UCT support services
06 Oct 2015
A lens on nature
06 Oct 2015
You too can blow the whistle
06 Oct 2015
Outsourcing is most efficient, cost effective option for UCT support services
The University of Cape Town notes the demands by members of Rhodes Must Fall (RMF), the National Education Health and Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU) and other movements to abolish outsourcing of essential services at the university.
06 Oct 2015
Why we should care about dust - and the crucial role it plays in our climate
Dust doesn't get a lot of attention until it collects in dark corners, or blows up in dramatic storms. However, that is beginning to change. While carbon dioxide is the main driver of climate change, scientists have begun to realise that dust also plays a crucial but highly complex role in controlling global climate - as well as a number of other global scale processes, including ocean productivity, and even soil and water quality.
06 Oct 2015
Boycott of Food Vendors on Campus
05 Oct 2015
Meet the cohort members
With the Next Generation Professoriate initiative UCT hopes to advance the development of black academics by furnishing cohort members with greater clarity in their career paths and providing targeted support to them. The names of the 34 cohort members were recently made known. Learn more about them through their bios.
05 Oct 2015
Dynamic commerce team wins national water award
05 Oct 2015
UCT criminology centre gives meaning to SAPS crime statistics
The South African Police Services (SAPS) annual statistics have many shortcomings, but the report remains a valuable tool for figuring out the state of crime in the country, a report by the Centre of Criminology at the University of Cape Town titled: "A citizen's guide to SAPS crime statistics: 1994-2015" has noted.
05 Oct 2015
FactCheck: is South Africa the most unequal society in the world?
02 Oct 2015
College of Wardens' position on gender discrimination and patriarchy
02 Oct 2015
Show goes on despite passport woes
02 Oct 2015
UCT climbs to 120 in THE world university rankings
02 Oct 2015
Creative vehicles for serious science
01 Oct 2015
'Next generation' professors unveiled
The Next Generation Professoriate initiative will ensure that the pipeline to transform the professoriate is expanded and accelerated.
01 Oct 2015
UCT climbs to 120 in THE world university rankings
The University of Cape Town has risen 4 places to 120 out of 800 institutions in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings of 2015/16. In the last 2 years UCT has steadily climbed up the ranking, from #126 in the 2013/14 period to #124 last year.
01 Oct 2015
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